Joyce Foundation

Established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean,[1] heir to the lumber fortune created by David Joyce, the Joyce Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States.[2] The organization is based in Chicago, Illinois. Like the Ford Foundation, the family influence on the foundation waned after the death of its founder in 1972 and once the family was no longer involved with the organization.

President Barack Obama served on the board of Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002.[3] The foundation was linked to a controversial program to influence legal scholarship by giving large grants to major universities with the goal of having law students write law review articles supporting the Joyce Foundation’s leftist ideology regarding gun control. Obama was involved in the wealthy foundation’s attempt to manipulate the Supreme Court, buy legal scholarship, and obliterate the individual right to arms. The goal was to influence the legal material used by the Supreme Court during its review of current scholarly writings on the gun control issue.[4][5]